Word Origin & History

c.1300, from Old French destiner (12c.), from Latin destinare "make fast or firm, establish" (see destination). Originally in English of the actions of deities, fate, etc. Of human choices or actions, from early 16c. Related: Destined.

Example Sentences for destine

It would have been to plant the Travers here on the very spot I destine for myself.

Where the æons ahead of us destine it to end none of us can tell.

But fortune did not destine that he should long enjoy his honours in peace.

Your family, young man, destine you to some career, do they?

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For in is matere men weren wont to maken questiouns of e simplicite of e purueaunce of god and of e ordre of destine.